This page contains tabular data and spatial data. Species in Greatest Conservation Need lists and information including stressors and actions, information for viewing and download.
View and download spatial data of habitats, high quality core areas and connectivity corridors in the Conservation Action Network, and Conservation Opportunity Areas for partnerships.
Data Portal
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Tabular
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Tabular Species and Habitat Data
In these tables, you can choose information of interest:
- Species in Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN) and Species in Need of Information (SNI), details
- Habitat Associations for SGCN
- Stressors for Species Groups and Habitats
- Conservation Actions for Species Groups and Habitats
1,142 species were identified as Species in Greatest Conservation Need, the number of species by group summarized in the chart below. Plants and lichens are the most numerous, followed by butterflies and moths (122) and bees (117). Vertebrate animals, including amphibians, birds, fishes, mammals, and reptiles, total 166 species. In addition, 860 species were designated Species in Need of Information.
Species in Great Conservation Need
You can learn more about the factors that led to their selection, what habitats they use, and conservation actions for them in the interactive table below. You can select which groups and factors are of interest and download the data you want.
Alternatively, you can download the full species table here. (For more information, read the Species Chapter.)
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Spatial
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This map viewer contains spatial information on habitats and tools to assist in prioritizing where to work, as identified in Minnesota’s Wildlife Action Plan 2025-2035.
- Habitat map including the 15 primary habitat types with references to native plant communities and external data sources (Read Habitat Chapter)
- Conservation Action Network (CAN; formerly the Wildlife Action Network): cores of biodiversity hotspots and high quality habitats in a matrix of connectivity corridors, for use in prioritizing locations in conservation planning. (Read CAN Chapter)
- Conservation Opportunity Areas (COAs; formerly Conservation Focus Areas): 37 locations for partnership-based habitat conservation work for Species of Greatest Conservation Need. COAs are based on the CAN and expanded to facilitate collaborations and extend conservation benefits of on-the-ground habitat conservation projects to the landscape scale (Read COA Chapter).
